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1982 NCAA Division I AA football season

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Duration
  
August – November 1982

Duration
  
November 27–December 18

Championship site
  
Memorial Stadium Wichita Falls, TX

Champion
  
Eastern Kentucky Colonels football

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1984 NCAA Division I-AA football season

The 1982 NCAA Division I-AA football season, part of college football in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, began in August 1982 and concluded with the Dvision I-AA championship game on December 18 at Memorial Stadium in Wichita Falls, Texas. The Eastern Kentucky Colonels won their second I-AA championship, defeating the Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens in the Pioneer Bowl, 17−14.

Conference changes and new programs

Before the 1982 season, three conferences, and all of their members, were shifted from Division I-A to Division I-AA:

  • Ivy League — Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Yale
  • Southern Conference — Appalachian State, Chattanooga, East Tennessee State, Furman, Marshall, The Citadel, VMI, and Western Carolina
  • Southland Conference — Arkansas State, Lamar, Louisiana Tech, McNeese State, and Texas–Arlington
  • Southwestern Louisiana, who had been a member of the Southland during the 1981 season, remained in Division I-A as an Independent.

    • References

    1982 NCAA Division I-AA football season Wikipedia
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